After 16 years in parliament, including time as the first female speaker after the 2010 election, Ms Breuer announced in March it was time for her to step down.

"It's going to be very interesting, I'm going through a bit of a grieving period at the moment thinking 'have I made the right decision?' but I do feel it's time to move on.

"It's a younger world now and I think 'we'll let other people come along and see how they go'."

But she's not easing up on her political duties yet. Ms Breuer's still got 319 days on the job, and intends to be rooting for her regional communities until the end.

"I keep saying to people I'm not going until March 15 next year," Ms Breuer told ABC Mornings.

"I'm still there, I'm still the local member, I'll still be working and as issues come up I'll be dealing with them.

"There are some real issues with our health system in the country areas, I'm still very passionate about education in country areas, and a real concern of mine is what's happening with the mining industry."

On the topic of mining, she said her part of the state had really 'hitched our wagon on the mining industry', so now the industry was slowing down it needed some government attention.

"Once we heard that BHP Billiton wasn't going to go ahead with the expansion of Olympic Dam mine then you really seriously have to think about a lot of these smaller mines that have been in the pipeline for some time."

In terms of country health, Ms Breuer cited the Health Advisory Councils (HAC) as one of the things she would be looking in to.

"I certainly will be taking that one up as well because I have concerns about it, and it's not fair on communities.

"We love our hospitals, we rely on our hospitals and we need to have a lot more say in what goes on."

She said other regional health issues were harder for the government to address.

"One of the big issues for us out there is attracting health professionals, we just can't get them and that makes it very difficult," Ms Breuer said.

"When we live in the country regions we live there because we love those areas, we want to be there, and we are entitled to have a good health system and that's what we expect, and by and large I think that's what we get.

"But we can't expect to get everything that they get in Adelaide, so we're always going to have to face facts that for some treatments we're going to have to go to Adelaide."

Since her election to parliament in 1997, Ms Breuer said the way the public viewed politics had changed a lot over that time, and not for the better.

"People nowadays are so much more cynical towards politics," Ms Breuer said.

"When I first came in people always liked to have a bit of a go at a politician but it wasn't as vicious as it is now.

"It's really quite concerning for me because the great majority of my colleagues on a state and federal level are good people, they're there because they want to help their communities.

"We're seen as corrupt and power hungry and there for what we can get but I don't think that is the case with most politicians."

Admitting she's getting a bit tired of all the 'politics', Ms Breuer is looking forward to stepping out of the spotlight after her significant time spent serving communities across the South Australian outback.

"I've always worked for the community as much as I can. I've been very passionate about my community so I want a bit of time out for me now.